Woodside, Newark
Woodside is a small neighborhood in the
History
Woodside Township
Woodside Township was a township that existed in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, from 1869 to 1871. Woodside was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 24, 1869, from portions of Belleville Township[3] On April 5, 1871, almost two weeks after its second anniversary, the township was dissolved, and its territory was absorbed by Belleville and Newark.[4]
Cockloft Hall
In the early 1800s
Rail stations
Woodside Station, near the intersection of Grafton Avenue & Oraton Street, was a stop on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad
The
Housing project
The Archbishop Walsh Homes, named for Thomas Joseph Walsh, the first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Newark holding the position from 1937 until his death in 1952, when the project was built. It consisted of nine 8-story buildings.[9] They were demolished beginning in 1997 replaced by "town homes" and a recreation center called the Waterfront.[10]
References
- ^ Baird, Christine V. (March 27, 2008). "Neighborhood snapshot: Woodside". nj.
- ^ "Woodside in the Last Century: A Land Rich in Game and Legend". Charles Cummings.
- ^ "The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 133.
- ^ Hine, Charles Gilbert (1909), WOODSIDE The North End of Newark, N. J. Its History, Legends and Ghost Stories Gathered From the Records and the Older Inhabitants Now Living
- ^ Newark's Literary Lights (PDF), Newark Public Library, 2016
- ^ Nigro, Carmen. "So, Why Do We Call It Gotham, Anyway?", New York Public Library, January 25, 2011
- ^ Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1892. .
- ^ "Washington Irving, Cockloft Hall, and 'Salmagundi' Papers", Historic Newark, Newark, 1916, p.25
- ^ https://dana.njit.edu/items/show/270
- ^ Augunstein, Seth (May 22, 2013). "Waterfront recreation facility in Newark seen as way to revamp troubled North Ward neighborhood". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved 2023-09-24..